Kenneth Michael Devaney

I don't know where to start. There is so much neglect here that I have no choice but to report him to the Illinois Bar Association, ARDC, and I've spent nearly a month preparing documents for an online company that exposes bad attorneys nationwide. We hired Ken in early Dec 2021 to help our son. H...is Ex girlfriend was alienating the child despite there being a temporary court order for my son to have visitation. There was no cause to keep the child from him. On the contrary, my son had a great relationship with his 2 year old. She got a new boyfriend and decided to stop letting him see the child. This should have been a simple case of contempt and then we move on. Not at all. It took nearly a year, Oct 2022, for my son to get time that is slowly increasing as the child gets re adjusted. Almost a year and he never addressed our Petition for Rule, the one thing that we hired him to do. Tons of judges chamber meetings where he would come out and have another reason why they can't have a trial that was supposed to happen in April 2022. Almost December, no trial. Instead he sends over an order from a court date that my son had no knowledge with directives on specific visitation dates that my son had no opportunity to address. I have addressed him several times regarding not advising my son of court dates, not returning calls, texts, and emails. At one point he told me he was not going to charge my son, assuming because he dropped the ball so many times, yet he still sent him a bill. I will post the results of these investigations once they become available because attorneys charging 5x minimum wage should provide services that justify the value of services equal to the cost. Ken is soft, he's negligent in his professional duties to his clients, and I do not recommend.